Business View Magazine | March 2018

113 www.emterra.ca |@EmterraGroup www.revitalpolymers.com Creating jobs & solutions for a low carbon, circular economy in Sarnia & beyond. call themselves the GFive Group–and have entered into a public/private partnership to get those buildings remediated and torn down and then redeveloped. With the city’s investment of $5.35million,dedicated toward remediation and demolition,the GFive Group will take on all of the risks of obtaining the regulatory approvals,doing the demolition,and then redevelop- ing those two cityblocks into a productivemixed-use community.” “BaysideMall in the downtown core,which is sitting on about nine acres of city-owned land,was in receiv- ership four years ago.Developed back in the 1980s,it has not kept upwith the times,”she continues.“But out of that process of receivership and couple of owners in and out,Season’s Retirement Communities,has acquired the site and has ambitious plans to repurpose themall space and also build two residential towers –one oriented towards both independent seniors and the general publicmarket,and the other as in- dependent supportive living andmemory care suites for seniors.That will be a huge shot in the arm for the downtown.Thismall is a big anchor piece in the downtown and it will benefit greatlyfrom this type of development.” Also on the City’s agenda isMitton StreetVillage, a small community just southeast of downtown.“It’s fallen on hard times and it’s got a lot ofvacancies,”says Misek-Evans.“The former hospital anchors one end of that village and an older high school that’s being surplused anchors the other end.So,we’re trying to get the communityconversation started therewith a lot of uptake and input from local residents and developers on howbest to rejuvenate that neighborhood.Sarnia is a verycaring communityand it comes together when